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dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 21 12:53 pm Post subject: vodka shortcrust pastry
the amounts are rough but the result is nice some cold butter, nice stuff is good some buckwheat flour some good soft plain wheat flour salt and pepper and thyme seem to work chop and mix very gently, add vodka mix very gently using more vodka or flour as required chill roll out using plain flour blind bake worked for a quiche base, i have no idea if it would do a pasty

Midlandsman

Joined: 22 May 2014
Posts: 116

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 21 3:55 pm Post subject:
Vodka also makes great batter. MM

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 21 6:40 pm Post subject:
when i had the cold half the next day the pastry was strong enough for a large pocket pasty even though it was thinner than i would use with "traditional" pasty pastry i will have to experiment, maybe a next gen recipe is a good idea.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 21 1:56 pm Post subject:

Midlandsman wrote:

Vodka also makes great batter.

MM

I can see the benefit of vodka in batter. Why would you put it in pastry?

ETA! AHA. It prevents the formation of gluten, so your pastry will remain very short and crumbly. Nice.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 21 2:38 pm Post subject:
yep, very short and crispy but mechanically strong i will report back after trying it for pasties.

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